Re: [abcusers] chords writing in abc sources compiling

2001-07-10 Thread Forgeot Eric
Thanks to everyone who give some good advices for displaying multible voices on one staff. The command %%staves 1 (2 3) worked well with abcm2ps. I thought I could be good to propose new features in the abc format, for example, in the brackets for the chords [], we could have symbolised

[abcusers] Re: A lot of people can't print PostScript

2001-07-16 Thread Forgeot Eric
A lot of people can't print PostScript, JPEG looks foul for music, and PDF is a bloated waste of space, so what else is there? You no longer need a postscript printer to print postcript !! That's why ghostscript ghostview were designed. I don't really know if a postscript laser printer is

[abcusers] RE :There is a dumb man... downloading software

2001-07-16 Thread Forgeot Eric
Some good free spider software : Webcopier : http://www.maximumsoft.com/ httrack : http://www.httrack.com/ -- To Gianni Cunich : I think you're splitting hairs in your long offensive reply. I personnaly don't care if you don't like the abc format for some or other reason. I think it's a

[abcusers] abc2winamp one day ? / AbcMus

2001-07-24 Thread Forgeot Eric
About Abcmus, is there a new release planed ? Yes. I've started working hard again (since about 6 weeks) on a new version 2.0. I plan to have it ready latest by the end of September. This version will include printing of sheet music. Great ! About sheet music, I think I'll stay faithfull to

[abcusers] RE : ABC in an internet cafe

2001-08-06 Thread Forgeot Eric
How can somebody on one of these systems use an emailed ABC file if they aren't familiar enough with the notation to read the source? Didn't they tried the application abc2internetcafe.exe ? :) More seriously there is a java application that can display abc :

[abcusers] Mirror of Joyce's book Old Irish folk music and songs

2001-08-15 Thread Forgeot Eric
Hello, I've found this : http://www.g8ina.enta.net/joyce.zip at : http://www.g8ina.enta.net/irish.htm The P.W.Joyce ABC Set The Joyce Set Site closed, thanks to Allen Garvin for permission (I've only found 370 tunes) | Don't know, but it's a great loss. | The site contained ABCs of all the

[abcusers] RE: ABC transcrivers ID

2001-09-02 Thread Forgeot Eric
I remember fantasising, a couple of years ago, about a usenet-style network of intercommunicating, self-updating abc tune-servers. To avoid the necessity of having a grand guru or an Abc office center authorizing personnal identification number, I propose we could think of a logical code

[abcusers] Susato work planning

2001-09-07 Thread Forgeot Eric
Hello, this is a great work you've done Frank ! But this is the second time I'm doing some book transcriptions and there is someone doing the same on his side. There was first Steve Mansfield and Arbeau's Orchesographie (http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk/Orchesography.abc, compare with

[abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-01 Thread Forgeot Eric
Yes, I think it's quite boring to read all those endless quarrels about the standardization of a musical format I found already rather perfect : if it becomes too complicated, then there is not point using it instead of midi : I like ABC because it's easy and compact, and use a real midi

[abcusers] RE : mystery Breton tune

2002-03-01 Thread Forgeot Eric
This tune is really great !! It's one of my favorite in the celtic area. We play it with my folk band. You can find a cover of it by the famous breton band Tri Yann. They called it Kerfank 1870. I can't swear it, but I think the rythm is an An Dro. The lyrics they use is Général, ma Général

[abcusers] RE : RE : mystery Breton tune

2002-03-02 Thread Forgeot Eric
Can you translate the Breton words in the song? I can't, unfortunatly. I don't know Breton. You could ask JF Moine, I think he can breton, but I'm not sure. I knew nothing at all about. (The French state has been using its colonial and minority peoples as cannon fodder in the same way ever

[abcusers] 16-bit abc printing software

2002-03-12 Thread Forgeot Eric
BTW, one way I'm using floppies is to send abc files and programs to a Windows 3.11 user who teaches music in the country (i.e. he's not rich), and has no Internet connection. If anyone has recent experience with abc programs to use and print from abc on that platform, I'd appreciate an email

[abcusers] RE : Complex Chords in ABC, and in other software...

2002-04-07 Thread Forgeot Eric
I propose to compare the chords example given by Luis Pablo Gasparotto with a software which has a chord dictionnary (power tab editor) I'm convinced that a good point to start a CHORD STANDARIZATION is to see what are the concepts which everybody agree. I think this concepts are: (I totally

[abcusers] repeats

2002-04-15 Thread Forgeot Eric
Hello, concerning repeats, will it be possible into the new abc standard to have more than two repeats in a song ? And how about repeats like |: blabla '-1.3 blabla :| '-2 blabla :| '- 4 etc... || ? I propose to have something like X:1 T:Valse à Manu R:Valse C:Manuel Murcia H: N:

[abcusers] re : jcabc2ps and mystery breton tune

2002-04-20 Thread Forgeot Eric
I found the jcabc2ps sources in the repertory : http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/src/jcabc2ps/ I didn't managed to find any .gzipped file in it. Maybe in /src/jcabc2ps/ at an other adress (I remember for some years ago there was an other one) ? So I used an offline browser to get all the

[abcusers] re : parts, repeats...

2002-04-20 Thread Forgeot Eric
There are some problems involved in the current definition. How do you for instance handle combinations of |: :| repeats and P: specifications such as the following: T:P test M:6/8 P:AABB K:G P:A GAB GAB | FGA FGA | P:B dBG dBG :| AFD FAc || Should this be played as follows? GAB GAB | FGA

[abcusers] RE : from ABC to image

2002-04-24 Thread Forgeot Eric
Is there any tool to convert abc document into an image? I was using abcm2ps, but when music is too big, it generates two images. Hi, I've seen your website. 2 remarks : 1/ About converting abc to eps files, or other image format, you should use pdf instead because most users have access to a

[abcusers] pdf files (re : from ABC to image)

2002-04-26 Thread Forgeot Eric
Which version of Acrobat? They keep changing the file format you don't need acrobat to generate pdf files. (see other replies) On my setup (old Macs) I can generate PostScript from some applications for free (I think, haven't tried lately) but creating Acrobat files needs a utility that costs

[abcusers] RE : Latest ABC tune search

2002-05-06 Thread Forgeot Eric
As a result, my count of known ABC sites is now 239, an increase of 45 from a month ago. My tune index now contains 115097 tunes, this is a great tool you have programmed ! Is it possible to have a top ten list ? :) More seriously, have you a report of those website (with the number of

[abcusers] RE : concatenate abc files

2002-05-10 Thread Forgeot Eric
Thanks to all who helped me, especially, Richard, Buddha Buck and John. With little modifications, it works well. I'll try to learn in the future more of those basic commands by myself. Richard said : I have various stuff in perl to do these kinds of things - abc-cat, abc-grep, abc-sort, etc

[abcusers] abctab2ps and midi

2002-05-10 Thread Forgeot Eric
Is there a midi support with abctab2ps ? (It doesn't seem so) Or is it possible nevertheless to hear files in the abctab2ps format ? (Before playing a tune, I need to *hear* it, especially when it concern lute tablatures.) Wayne Cripps Tab can generate Midi files. Is there a way to convert an

Subject: [abcusers] Action against spam

2002-05-18 Thread Forgeot Eric
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[abcusers] RE : Linux abc HOWTO

2002-05-18 Thread Forgeot Eric
About James Allwright's Linux abc HOWTO : All aspect for beginning with abc and linux seems to be here. But I use Mandrake 8.x, and all was allready configured for me : timidity, gv and ghostscript so I had no problem. With the use of a window manager such as KDE, you just have to clic to get all

[abcusers] what does THAT means ??

2002-05-23 Thread Forgeot Eric
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[abcusers] RE : Percussion notation...

2002-05-24 Thread Forgeot Eric
Is there some abc software for percussion notation? it won't work for notation purposes, but this feature is suppose to make some rythms : %%MIDI drum string [drum programs] [drum velocities] I didn't managed to make it works correctly, the reference is rather unclear about that. Will this

[abcusers] re : slurs and ties

2002-05-29 Thread Forgeot Eric
| brackets for slurs when it's possible. If not (if it may confuse) | I'll use - instead. In any case, most musicians don't consider them to be different. This one does. :-) Some folk musicians may not consider them to be different, but I'd argue that most classical musicians do. Oh,

[abcusers] Fingering for instruments... (was : To tell the dancer from the dance)

2002-05-29 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've just been transcribing some tunes from Ryan's/Coles for John Chambers' project. These include fingering for the fiddle on some notes. I had to use guitar chords to stick this in, and, to be charitable, it looks awful. The numbers are too far from the notes, and often conflict with other

[abcusers] re re : slurs and ties

2002-05-30 Thread Forgeot Eric
It is just simply incorrect to not make the normal distinction between ties and slurs in any form of musical notation (which does include ABC), and, worst of all, ultimately confusing to users if improper usage is allowed. Ties and slurs are not the same thing, nor are they intended to be,

[abcusers] RE : reasons for using abc

2002-06-05 Thread Forgeot Eric
I stated on my homepage (in french) the pros and cons (in my opinion) for abc : - Only one whole file for a collection of tunes (unlike midi...) - quick to download (due to compactness (see above) and size) (but you know all that) - quite easy to transcribe (if one can a bit music) and really

[abcusers] RE : Some minor complaints about abc

2002-06-05 Thread Forgeot Eric
I have downloaded various things and used abc2Win and whatever behind the scenes tool that runs on one of the sites to create printable sheet music. The minor complaint that I have is that the measures seem to be awefully cramped together. try using a program supporting postscript, like abc2ps

[abcusers] multivoice and multiparts

2002-06-05 Thread Forgeot Eric
Could it be possible to have a mix of the multivoice and parts features ? I enjoy the possibility in musical programs like trackers to made on one side all the musical part, and in an other how they play together : I would be usefull in abc for complex musical parts X:1 T:multivoice and

[abcusers] re : new version of Five Line Skink

2002-06-08 Thread Forgeot Eric
Any interest in having Skink as a 'front end' for a command-line tool? in other words, use Skink to enter, proof read and proof-listen, and then invoke abcxxps for final output? yes, why not ? It's a good idea. Even if I can use runabc.tcl for this the ability for Skink as proof read and listen

[abcusers] antialiasing and test on ps files

2002-06-14 Thread Forgeot Eric
pages because the file sizes are much larger and the download times that much longer, and because the results on-screen are unpredictable. I don't really agree, even if you're right in some extends : A gif file (I mean a partition) that looks cool on a browser with 16 colours is ci. 9 ko. The

[abcusers] Broken rhythms / triplet rhythms

2002-06-21 Thread Forgeot Eric
The convention for writing broken rhythms like A3/ A/ is AA Is it possible to find a way of writing more friendly this sort of notation : (3A-AA ? I don't know if it's common in music but I've several medieval / trad. tunes which are written or played such. For abc2midi there is the notation

[abcusers] re : Broken rhythms / triplet rhythms

2002-06-22 Thread Forgeot Eric
Here's your example with general tuplets thank you very much Frank ! I didn't know this feature because it's not in the abc-draft 1.7.6 but in the standard-propose.txt so I missed it. It's not really quicker to write than my notation with slurs (sorry, ties... ;) ) but it had the advantage to

[abcusers] Renaissance fonts and Abc

2002-06-23 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've begun to make a true type font for renaissance music, and I hope to adapt it soon for Abcm2ps, or other applications. It can be useful to recreate historical manuscripts, like the Playford one and those of the Village Music Project. The problem is that I can't extract fonts used by abcm2ps

[abcusers] Modes (and iabc skink)

2002-06-24 Thread Forgeot Eric
Iabc doesn't understand the K:Am That's completely unacceptable; the program should never have been released in that state. It's not very kind for the author. I think it have to : it's good to see a new application. And as far as I'm concerned, I've never used modes in the K: fields but only

[abcusers] RE : Re : Renaissance fonts and Abc

2002-06-24 Thread Forgeot Eric
Great work, Eric. Any chance of a Mac version? I used to have a program for porting TrueType fonts between MAc and Windows, but it seems I've mislaid it. as far as this font is finished, it will be available for everyone interessed. Pfaedit allow to export to postscript binary for mac so it's

[abcusers] modes (again)

2002-06-27 Thread Forgeot Eric
| ... It was already too late to change when I first mentioned it. Since it's not possible to add a new field dedicated to mode, I thought it was possible to write 2 K: fields in a tune, if necessary : the first one for the signature, and the second one to *precise* the mode used, so clever

[abcusers] Muse

2002-06-27 Thread Forgeot Eric
And incidentally, was Muse one of the programs that you tried? Yes, the first programs I tried when I first heard of abc (when I discovered internet as well) were Muse and Abc2win. To be honest, I was first reluctant to Muse because of the drawing of the notes. But I tried it anyway and find

[abcusers] re : RE: Intergalactic naming conventions

2002-06-30 Thread Forgeot Eric
| Lewes, East Sussex, England. Take a look at=20 | http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk/. ... The URL worked, but there were no clues there about which planet it might be on. try to do a WHOIS on it, a DNSLOOKUP, a TRACEROUTE, or even a FINDPLANET and you'll probably find it. Finally a

[abcusers] re : shortcuts in Muse

2002-07-04 Thread Forgeot Eric
Furthermore a snippet that is copying may alter the context for following notes (for instance it may include a K:) so that makes about 8 variants that's why I prefer using plain text abc instead of graphical notes, so this is only the bare text I copy : in fact for transcribing I don't need

[abcusers] JC's tune finder

2002-07-07 Thread Forgeot Eric
Concerning John Chamber tune finder (I find it very useful and use it to find new tune, but I download always the full version of the abc file on the original site, so if I'm a bit fool, it's obviously for other reasons) Jack Campin said : assuming you haven't been fool enough to fish a single

[abcusers] Arbeau's Orchesography

2002-07-07 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've been warned of an Arbeau's Orchesography with the FULL TEXT in middle french, and abc, available on line at : http://graner.net/nicolas/arbeau/ I thought first the author made an other abc transcription (there is already one by Steve Mansfield, by me and several tunes were transcribed by

[abcusers] RE : ABC source code license? what I'm planning...

2002-07-11 Thread Forgeot Eric
Well, I suppose DNA is coding. yes, and there is enven a Dna2Abc on sourceforge ! http://dna2abc.sourceforge.net/ (and it doesn't seems to be a joke for Chris Walshaw's Abc international) I want to build an application that depicts classical dance via language scripts and a musical score

[abcusers] RE : tune finder

2002-07-11 Thread Forgeot Eric
It's maybe possible for your tune finder to use this code to archive the tune (I don't know exactly how the tune finder works) and if there is no replicant of the tune (i.e. if the original website where the tune has its origin is down) to use it nevertheless, so the code would mean only it's

[abcusers] RE : tune finder

2002-07-13 Thread Forgeot Eric
That depends. Do you just want the information to be present somewhere in the headers? Or would you like software to be able to use the information sensibly? both if possible. I want pple to be able to find again this tune if they had only the tune somewhere else, or to come back

[abcusers] some bugs in abcmus2 beta

2002-07-15 Thread Forgeot Eric
In abcmus2 beta 1 In the change default length tool, I had a ^f^g a (in K:Am), and the tool gave ^f2_a2 a2 . I expected ^f2^g2 a2 instead, without shifting notes... (it occurs when the whole tune is processed) Worse, this same tool doesn't seem to care about the rests when it changes

[abcusers] RE : suggested patch for abcm2ps-2.11.3

2002-07-24 Thread Forgeot Eric
I don't know if JF Moine often read this list (from times to times he posts here) so I take the right to answer this question (and because I regulary download the latest Abcm2ps release) : First, abcm2ps is now at version 3.0.20 (at least) !! Is this 2.11.3 version from the sourceforce.net ?

[abcusers] re : Abacus 1.0.0 launch

2002-07-30 Thread Forgeot Eric
Abacus is an abc editor/player/printer programme - Windows only I'm afraid. Nice program ! I like when there are new abc applications, so I can complete my collection :) The print quality is adequate without being outstanding. The display is good. I'll give you my first impressions, if

[abcusers] re : Skink sound, Abacus 1.0.0, and iabc

2002-07-31 Thread Forgeot Eric
Eric it still has problem with the sound, Have you tried the latest version (that just came out last week)? I still have problems playing in Linux, but I didn't hit any problems on Windows in the small amount of testing I did there. Of course I did :) I'll always check new version of any

[abcusers] re : Abacus 1.0.0

2002-08-03 Thread Forgeot Eric
- I didn't managed to print scores with my HP DeskJet 520 Printer. It works OK on my Epson Stylus 440. I'll try it on other printers to check this... I can't see the point of taking up valuable space on the screen for something you aren't using all the time. But for browsing several tunes

[abcusers] re : suggestions for [A4A2] notation

2002-08-03 Thread Forgeot Eric
Bryan Creer : I've gone for highest note prevails in the counting of the times so you can do things like - X:1 T:The Cotillion C:Trad (Bosham Band) M:4/4 L:1/8 K:G [G4D4][d4B,4]|[B2D4]AB [G2B,4]AB|[c2E4]B2[A2D4]G2|[FD4]GAF [D3A,3]D| I've seen that Skink happily supports this notation too.

[abcusers] RE : Different-size note heads

2002-08-08 Thread Forgeot Eric
With the current syntax, a { can't be followed by a digit. So the suggestion is to allow a digit after { as a note size. Wonderfull idea ! Maybe I ask too much, but is it intended to have the possibility to have those small notes in parenthesis also ? We can find this notation in some

[abcusers] Abacus printing problem

2002-08-12 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've reported in the past a print problem for abacus (it prints only parts of the score (- the key, time signature, the notes but not the tails, the bar lines but not the staves). I've tried to print something else on an other computer with an other printer (Canon BJC-210, the first time it was

[abcusers] Re : suggestions for [A4A2] notation

2002-08-13 Thread Forgeot Eric
: is about. Look at the Subject line. The topic is abc bracketed chord : notation. The melody note in a chord is the one that a monphonic : player plays. There's nothing deeper than that. I started only with this topic because I saw there was some applications which begun to use a

[abcusers] Jcabc2ps for MSWIN (new version from the corrected sources)

2002-10-01 Thread Forgeot Eric
Well, strange enough I didn't get any warning this time when I compiled (using mingw), I may have done something wrong the last time (maybe by adding and removing some flags for cygwin, then there was wrong flags when I compiled with mingw). The new binary, with the 20020929 sources, are now at

[abcusers] quarter-tones with abc

2002-10-02 Thread Forgeot Eric
I'm transcribing some Persian (Iranian) musics, and I'm currently working on some additional fonts for abcm2ps for the quarter tones (called koron for quarter-tone flat and sori for quarter-tone sharp). Is there a way to make some abc application play quarter-tones (and/or other subdivision of

[abcusers] quarter-tones with abc in abc2midi - Pitchbend in abc2midi

2002-10-04 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've studied a bit the code of abc2midi and found it was probably difficult to make some change in it (for the value pitch) so that new quarter notes can be added between the normal notes : the array pitch is set for integer values (and many times in the code, not easy to change this to float),

[abcusers] RE : quarter-tones with abc in abc2midi and abcm2ps

2002-10-23 Thread Forgeot Eric
About his quartertone notation, I managed to use some postscript fonts for using in Abcm2ps. I've made also an equivalence for western music, like the one found in some bretonian songs (I found it in a CD) I've upload a pdf with the result if some may be interested :

[abcusers] RE : Finally, a tune I know!

2002-10-25 Thread Forgeot Eric
nice tune ! isn't this part a bit strange ? BcBc z4 |B2 c2 d2 e2| except the problem about the blank lines you should avoid (the issue has already been debated so I won't comment more), you could if possible give all the clues you have about the tune in the diverse fields (ex : H: B: C: etc.).

[abcusers] The symbol and abc2midi

2002-11-03 Thread Forgeot Eric
instead of adding the midi command for each tune, you may find it easier to recompile the sources you just have to change this : in the file store.c ratio_a = 2; ratio_b = 6; (6 instead of 4, which made the Hornpipe rythm) I can also provide my recompiled version if you prefer not to

Re: [abcusers] Lost in abcm2ps

2002-11-15 Thread Forgeot Eric
abc2ps (and abcm2ps) assumes you have knowledge of how to compile C on your computer oh, you should probably use Abcm2ps, it's newer and better than the old abc2ps. Binaries and helps can be found on Guido Gonzato's website. I don't have the url here you can find it with www.google.com and

re : [abcusers] abc drum notation and abc2ps

2002-11-15 Thread Forgeot Eric
If you have access to a linux system, you can always create the new symbols using the application PfaEdit http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/ It works fine. Then, with the %%deco option in abcm2ps, you can add new symbols. I'm currently working on such stuffs, it's not that easy but it works.

[abcusers] Lost in abcm2ps

2002-11-18 Thread Forgeot Eric
So you've got your abcm2ps Windows executable - but I suspect that what you do *next* is also causing you some doubt. whoo, it's a very complete and well detailled step by step process you've written Steve ! I remember your good tutorial for the abc notation (I probably used it when I begin

[abcusers] Goodbye

2002-11-20 Thread Forgeot Eric
Frank, I'm so sorry you can't maintain Musicaviva any longer... It was a good place on the web. Is there a hope it will come back again ? Is it a money problem (cost of servers...) ? If so it's a real pity then. Can't you move to a free account ? I've seen also you speak about a job problem.

Re: [abcusers] iabc 0.6 released

2002-11-23 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've tried the midi export, it works good, but if I want to hear midi directly from iabc, it seems to work only with the windows media players (I have 2 sound cards and the first one, with no output right now, is the default one use by media player, but that's not the pb) : I tried to set other

[abcusers] Laurie Griffiths : sad news

2002-11-29 Thread Forgeot Eric
ouch, it's very shocking to learn... I didn't know him personnaly, but I knew him by just a few emails and on this list... It's such a pity ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail :

Re: [abcusers] 8va notation, abcm2ps

2003-01-05 Thread Forgeot Eric
Does anybody know how (if possible) to put octave notation, e.g. 8va basso - - - - - - into abc so that abcm2ps can render it? I tried making it lyrics, and Yes I know : write something like that : K:C treble-8 maybe for you it will be instead bass-8 for octave up it would be +8

[abcusers] Re: abc for linux

2003-01-06 Thread Forgeot Eric
Welcome to the promised land! I'm afraid you'll have to get used to the Unix/Linux way of getting some things done lol, welcome to the promised land where all is harder to work :) btw among all the programs you mentionned I use them both on window$ and linux ;)

[abcusers] online abc previewer

2003-02-08 Thread Forgeot Eric
http://atte.dyndns.dk/lovsang/input.php Feel free to try it out and share any thoughts (please say which browser and platform). (sorry, it's only in danish for now, vis means show, slet alt means clear everything): Well, gratulieren da ! It looks very good ! Is it a result from Abcm2ps ? oh

[abcusers] online abc previewer

2003-02-09 Thread Forgeot Eric
I'm not sure my hosting service would allow to run applications... Hmmm, that would be a problem... yes, I tried yesterday, they don't allow this, I uploaded a version of abcm2ps I compiled on linux, but they don't even allow to change the CHMOD on it so it's not possible to run it. And many of

[abcusers] Adding PostScript fonts?

2003-02-14 Thread Forgeot Eric
oups, it seems I forget to post this one after typing it... If you're using ghostscript... you put in /fonts/ your new fonts (ex : Hansagotisch.pfb, maybe there are also other definitions, I can't remember, such as Hansagotisch.afm, Hansagotisch.inf Hansagotisch.pfm but they're probably not all

[abcusers] Inverted quadruplets

2003-02-26 Thread Forgeot Eric
in Abc notation, for playing 5 notes in the time of 4 we can use quintuplet. Now, let think I want the opposite, playing 4 notes in the time of 5. How can I do that ? I used for ex : F,5/4F5/4C5/4F5/4 instead of F,FCF . It seems correct this way, but some applications seems to complain (abcm2ps

Re: [abcusers] Inverted quadruplets

2003-03-01 Thread Forgeot Eric
thank you very much, I had forgotten this notation's existance. Now all just work fine. I'll add this in my abc tutorial (in french) Writing F5/4 will cause problems for most display programs, since the time value 5/4 can't be displayed as a single note in staff notation. Player programs will

[abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread Forgeot Eric
Hello, it's still a work in progress, but you can look at : http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/renaissance_fonts.html ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-08 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've already converted them to postscript, thanks PfaEdit. I tried to replace the fonts used in the source code of Abcm2ps, for getting 2 different binaries. As explained on my site, the exported fonts (by PfaEdit) where different in the definition from the postscript code used in Abcm2ps JF

[abcusers] re : ANNOUNCEMENT - Typesetting Music with ABC available

2003-03-08 Thread Forgeot Eric
yes, this manual is nice. I've d/l the italian manual when it was released and couldn't understand all in it, but I got the impression at least it was well done and well detailed. The english version confirm that, even if I haven't studied all in depth (since I already know how to use most of

[abcusers] abcm2ps and EPS

2003-03-08 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've tried the new feature of Abcm2ps, for including eps files. The eps provided in the source is very clean, so there is no pb with it. I created one with a vectorial application, but when I imported it it didn't work : the first time there was a buffer overflow (I recompiled it with a more

Re: Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-13 Thread Forgeot Eric
Hello These look great. If you publish the postscript code I will include the fonts (the noteheads and clefs, anyway) in iabc. as said on the website, the postscript fonts are published : http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/renaiss_music_font.zip

Re: [abcusers] Bb and Eb instruments (Linux)

2003-03-15 Thread Forgeot Eric
Thank you, I don't think I'll use this one for this kind of work, but I may need to study how this kind of script works for a similar purpose, so it'll be very usefull. If anyone can use these scripts for anything I am happy to share them wit= h=20 you.

[abcusers] ps2gif?

2003-03-19 Thread Forgeot Eric
Can someone please tell me how to convert a .ps to a .gif? I have GS on mswindows and I don't use linux much. I think it's the same there, you can use one of the tool they provide to convert .ps to .png. Then use a graphic editor to convert the png to gif, but btw png should be enough and

[abcusers] abcm2ps

2003-06-06 Thread Forgeot Eric
Nevertheless, everyone's ideas are welcome last time I was using abc for creating some midi file with several voices with the same notes (to get a bigger sound) When I used abcm2ps for viewing the note, I realized there isn't in the standard, nor in abcm2ps (it seems) an option to avoit printing

[abcusers] RE : abc and microtonality

2003-06-27 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've read with great attention and interest the last thread about microtone. Although I'm not an expert in this field, I'm interested in writing notation for persian music, and playing it as well. I regret I haven't worked much on this project (including transcribing music) recently, but I had a

Re: [abcusers] the abc standard

2003-07-01 Thread Forgeot Eric
responsibility over the standard. Personally, I would propose Jef Moine and Guido Gonzato: Jef because he's I think it's a good idea, if they agree of course ;) I think also of John Chamber. Just one comment: having a software developer in charge of standards is a conflict of interests. S/he

[abcusers] re : My point of view on the abc standard

2003-07-02 Thread Forgeot Eric
At least partly because the prospect of setting it up, installing ghostscript to view graphics. etc. it just too daunting for them. What these users (probably the majority of PC users) want is something that is easy to use and works on thier system it's true I often recommended Abc to several

[abcusers] Re: bw ps output

2003-07-02 Thread Forgeot Eric
Is it possible to instruct (or modify) abcm2ps to create pure black and white PS output (without gray values) and to draw the staff lines as thin as possible? This way the output would look much clearer on the web. as far as I know, abcm2ps creates pure bw output, but probably your default

RE : [abcusers] abc2midi and other MIDI-supporting software

2003-07-04 Thread Forgeot Eric
It isn't being actively supported any more, though. We discussed its bug with broken-rhythms constructs what, two years ago? getting the nearest I've ever seen us get to total consensus, and even though fixing it was a matter of altering one numeric constant in the source, it hasn't been done.

Re: [abcusers] bloody ! again

2003-07-04 Thread Forgeot Eric
This is the wrong way to look at it. abc2win is barely being maintained, but tunes created with its aid are the largest single corpus on the web. It's the tunes you need to care about, not the software. ok, I guess that *almost* all of those tunes are from folk tradition. Do you honestly think

Re: RE : [abcusers] abc2midi and other MIDI-supporting

2003-07-04 Thread Forgeot Eric
hehe, I didn't say that, only quoted it... On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Forgeot Eric wrote: It isn't being actively supported any more, though. It has now a new maintainer, Seymour Shlien. We discussed its bug with broken-rhythms constructs what, two years ago

Re: [abcusers] Stars and Bangs

2003-07-07 Thread Forgeot Eric
When printing music I would expect the music to look like === with only the last line maybe not being right-justified. Me too ! Does non-right justify mean the score could be

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps?

2003-07-14 Thread Forgeot Eric
this is what the archive abcm2ps-3.6.4.zip contains: 165376 07-08-03 13:10 abcm2ps-3.6.4/abcm2ps.exe I guess he d/l the archive from JF Moine's website, and not your, otherwise he would have got this binary ;) Otherwise for more help with abcm2ps (automatic laucher), this page may be

Re: [abcusers] Looking for help on printing

2003-07-14 Thread Forgeot Eric
Is there a way to do this with any of the ABC programs? I currently use ABC2Win, and can't figure out a way to do it. I hate the idea of printing each individually. I thought it was possible to print several pages with abc2win... otherwise as someone said, abc#2ps can do this. If it's only

[abcusers] line-break again !!!! :)

2003-07-16 Thread Forgeot Eric
masochistic altruist who will go back and remove all the line-break !s from all the tune files created with abc2win over the last eight years or so which might annoy I guess it's quite easy, sitting confortable behind my computer without knowing how to program, to find a solution for a

[abcusers] ABC sects

2003-07-16 Thread Forgeot Eric
I use this abc for obtaining, sending, transcribing and printing tunes - I use emacs/xemacs as editor with abc-mode and then to produce top quality printed music I use jcabc2ps - what is *wrong* with the abc2ps's ?? I think jcabc2ps was not targeted in the list of the bad applications, of

[abcusers] RE : %%ABC 2.0 identifier

2003-07-16 Thread Forgeot Eric
I don't know if whatI'm about to suggest has been suggested before,/.../ it's fairly clear to me that the real key to writing any new specification is adding some identifier that says that the tune conforms to the new specification. For example, maybe something like: %%ABC3.0 ...anywhere in

Re: [abcusers] ABC sects

2003-07-18 Thread Forgeot Eric
convert my tunes to make them display when each V: label occurs only once (on big score it's less readable, but not on smaller BarFly has a built-in command to do that - Format Tune under the Utilities menu will rearrange the abc into the format that the program likes (or the other way, if you

[abcusers] Abacus

2003-07-22 Thread Forgeot Eric
There are good improvements in this new version, and it seems also it crash less, unlike the previous version. The midi rendering is good also. I think you already know for lyrics and multivoice :) (it lacks cruelly) but will there be a midi export as well ? A few suggestions : You made a full

Re: [abcusers] ABC sects

2003-07-22 Thread Forgeot Eric
I don't like %%midi transpose, because transposition is nothing to do with midi, I forget to talk about that, an advantage of BarFly is, if I understood well, it can transpose either the notation, or the sound, or both. The %%midi transpose is limited because it make transpose both (of course it

[abcusers] Abcpp

2003-07-22 Thread Forgeot Eric
it seems I forgot to send this post... I apologize to post it again if I already did so Any programmers here that feel the call to create a nice little conversion program/script for the benefit of the world at large? /.../ Note that with such a program, there is no need to cleanup old ABC files

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